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Archive | 2011 |
October 13th, 2011
Pit bull fatality in West Haven Connecticut, October 2011
For many years most dog bite related human fatalities have been inflicted onto children and the elderly by pit bull type dogs. This trend seems to be continuing in 2011, as witnessed by the fatality on a 20-month-old toddler who was sleeping in the upstairs bedroom of her grandmother’s home in West Haven Connecticut. Apparently, [...]
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October 11th, 2011
Sensationalized pitbull attack in Glendora,California on October 10, 2011
I was called to the television set to watch a story on a local Los Angeles news television channel reporting an attack by 2 pit bulls on a middle-age man, resting in his hospital bed. The victim described the pit bulls as attacking him viciously, after having escaped from the property where they were kept, [...]
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October 9th, 2011
Man bites dog – Assumption of risk does not apply
A recent jury verdict October 7, 2011 in Superior Court in Phoenix Arizona addressed the issue of assumption of risk in a dog bite case. Assumption of risk is a common legal doctrine used by the defense to assign comparative fault to the plaintiff. The logic behind the theory is that if one chooses to [...]
